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Cursitors

Defined in 3 dictionaries — Black's (1910), Black's (1891), Stimson (1881)

Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

Clerks in the chancery office, whose duties consisted in drawing up those writs which were of coarse, de cursu, whence their name. They were abolished by St. 5 & 6 Wm. IV. c. 82. Spence, Eq. Jur. 238 ; 4 Inst. 82.

A Dictionary of Law

Henry Campbell Black · 1891

Clerks in the chancery of- CURTIS. A garden; a space about a fice, whose duties consisted in drawing up house; a house, or manor; a court, or palace;

Glossary of Technical Terms, Phrases, and Maxims of the Common Law

Frederic Jesup Stimson · 1881

Clerks of chancery, whose duties were to make out the original writs, or writs de cnrsu.